Megan Marshall Receives 2022 BIO Award

Megan Marshall is the winner of the 13th BIO Award, bestowed annually by the Biographers International Organization to recognize individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the art and craft of biography. She will give the keynote address at the 2022 BIO Conference on May 14.

Marshall is the author of three biographical works: The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (Houghton Mifflin, 2005); Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013), which won the Pulitzer Prize in Biography; and Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017).

She currently teaches narrative nonfiction, life writing, and the art of archival research in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Emerson College in Boston. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the London Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. She has also received fellowships from such institutions as the National Endowment for the Humanities, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.